September 18, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
Former prime minister Tony Blair made two private trips to see Moamer Kadhafi in the run-up to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, The Sunday Telegraph revealed. Blair, who left office in June 2007, used a Libyan regime jet to visit Kadhafi in June 2008 and April 2009, the broadsheet said, citing documents discovered in Tripoli since Kadhafi was ousted from power. Blair played a major role in trying to bring Kadhafi in from the cold in exchange for giving up his nuclear weapons programme and first visited him in March 2004 in what was dubbed the “deal in the desert”. A spokesman for Blair acknowledged that the visits took place and that the Libyans had raised the issue of Abdelbaset Ali…
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